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May 14, 2008

Chris Martin Teases "Violet Hill" Vid With A New Look, But We Don't Know Him From Adam

Yes, the new Coldplay album so far is not sucking. Congrats everybody! But the videos will continue to take themselves seriously. In this preview clip for the "Violet Hill" video, Chris Martin and The Other Guys don their dusty and rugged sorta-military-jacket-things in a classic looking courtyard and proceed to not look at each other because that is a very dramatic thing to do:

Nice armbands, Chris. We've coined a term for your new style with some simple sartorial arithmetic.

The Coldplay

+ The Adam Ant

= The COLDPLANT. Yay everybody we did it.. (Nice compare, Goldenfiddle.)

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Paul Giamatti should be in this video...

Posted by: HBO is Sa Weet at 05/14/08 5:50 PM | Reply
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Paul Giamatti should be in everything...

Posted by: HoopaJoop profile link in reply to HBO is Sa Weet's comment at 05/14/08 9:15 PM | Reply
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I thought it was going to be Kasabian's Empire http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSKxXu05aOE

Posted by: HappyToast in reply to HBO is Sa Weet's comment at 05/15/08 3:02 AM | Reply
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Being in a rock band is cool!

Posted by: dadsgravy at 05/14/08 6:34 PM | Reply
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No thank you ;) I'll pass.

Posted by: JB at 05/14/08 6:41 PM | Reply
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Think they're British Sea Power fans?

Posted by: Johnnyboy at 05/14/08 6:54 PM | Reply
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YAY ROCK SONG

Posted by: Yoni at 05/14/08 8:11 PM | Reply
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Comehomenow

Coldplay is cool ::runs away in shame::

Posted by: Comehomenow profile link at 05/14/08 9:22 PM | Reply
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This looks like the Arcade Fire dressed up as Les Miserables.

Posted by: Say Word at 05/14/08 10:54 PM | Reply
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terrible song!

Posted by: sam drade at 05/15/08 1:43 AM | Reply
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The bass player looks like he might be a good lover, doggystyle.
nice spanking technique.

Posted by: Hey Darling at 05/15/08 7:31 AM | Reply
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Yeah, you know, we were just hanging out at a 17th century château, saw some instruments and costumes and said, 'Hey, fellow members of Coldplay, look, we're stuck here at this 17th century château anyway (presumably while their management was counting the first day downloads of this song), feel like jamming?"

And so it happened.

We are just lucky there happened to be a camera there to record it!

http://letterarms.blogspot.com/

Posted by: Steven at 05/15/08 8:12 AM | Reply
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Hey good lookin'!!

Posted by: Chris Martin at 05/15/08 9:22 AM | Reply
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What you guys think of my hammer?

Posted by: Chris Martin at 05/15/08 9:30 AM | Reply
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Why won't they do a Salute Your Shorts themed video? That'd be awesome to have Kevin "Ug" Lee, Budnick and Donkylips in there.

Posted by: 2ironic4u profile link at 05/15/08 10:08 AM | Reply
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man, they try sooooooo hard

Posted by: harder at 05/15/08 10:22 AM | Reply
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This is a decent song, though. Isn't it?

Posted by: Johnnyboy at 05/15/08 1:42 PM | Reply
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Does anyone know where I can get a jacket like Chris'? I want one pretty badly.

Posted by: Paul boyer at 07/14/08 10:23 PM | Reply
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